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Is Mysticism Where Science, Art, and Religion Meet? Is Mysticism Where Science, Art, and Religion Meet? – An Ongoing Multimedia Zoom Class: A Syllabus-in-Progress – Starting 7 October 2020—Wednesdays, 7:00−9:00PM 2001 II, Butterfly Black Stodart, Richard Presented By In cooperation with The Unitarian Church in Westport, Connecticut. Instructors & Hosts: Dr. Bart Stuck, Applied Mathematician & Physicist Rev. Marjorie Partch, Jungian Astrologer & Poet With Additional Special Guest Lecturers TBA The Tree of Life A Kabbalistic Poem By the Ari (“The Lion,” AKA Rabbi Isaac Luria, 1534–1572) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Luria Behold that before the emanations were emanated and the creatures were created, The Upper Simple Light had filled the whole existence. And there was no vacancy, such as an empty air, a hollow, But all was filled with that Simple, Boundless Light. And there was no such part as head, or end, But everything was One, Simple Light, balanced evenly and equally, And it was called “The Light of Ein Sof” [“Without End”]. And when upon His simple will, came the desire to create the worlds and emanate the emanations, To bring to light the perfection of His deeds, His names, His appellations, Which was the cause of the creation of the worlds, Then the Ein Sof restricted Himself, in His middle point, precisely at the center, And He restricted that Light, and drew far off to the sides around that middle point. And there remained an empty space, an empty air, a vacuum Precisely from the middle point. And that restriction was equally around that empty, middle point, So that the space was evenly circled around it. And after the restriction, when the vacant space remained empty Precisely in the middle of the Light of Ein Sof, A place was formed, where the Emanations, Creations, Formations, and Actions might reside. Then from the Light of Ein Sof, a single line hung down from Above, lowered into that space. And through that line, He emanated, created, formed, and made all the worlds. Prior to these four worlds, there was one Light of Ein Sof, whose Name is One, in wondrous, hidden unity, And even in the angels closest to Him There is no force and no attainment in the Ein Sof, As there is no mind of a created that could attain Him, For He has no place, no boundary, no name. 2 The Big Bounce https://www.quantamagazine.org/big-bounce-simulations-challenge-the-big-bang-20200804/ In a cyclic universe, periods of expansion alternate with periods of contraction. The universe has no beginning and no end. – Samuel Velasco/Quanta Magazine More on the Big Bounce (vs. Big Bang) in Section VII. Astronomy, Cosmology, Astrology, Page 12. 3 About the Cover Artist, Richard Stodart Born in Trinidad, West Indies, in 1945, Richard Stodart is a self-taught artist with a Fine Arts degree from Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada, in 1971. In 1973, he won a Canada Council Grant for a figurative series of paintings exploring the dynamic of self and reality, in and through presence. His work has been internationally exhibited. While painting, I work my way to an expressible image of the whole through a push and pull with the embodying body (the expressive activity of ideas/feelings and symbols/images) and mind (the active expression of the full round moon shape of reality), in and through emptiness. In this embodying process of radical relatedness, I weigh body and mind as orientational foci of opening and illumining, speaking and listening, encountering and making, the expressed and the inexpressible, ineffability and unnameability, for their dynamic equilibrium as unattainability. Stodart has published three books on his work: Free and Easy Wandering: Markings On The Way, DreamMaking: The Intimacy of Picture/Reality, and The Someone In Painting/A Picture, a retrospective of his paintings, drawings, and reflections on nonduality, from 1973 to 2014. Richard will present a guest lecture in January for Section IV, Mysticism East and West, see Page 11. 4 Introduction This course is designed to run weekly for one year, covering ten subjects for approximately one month apiece. Online meetings will be layered to build cumulatively, through overlapping, revisiting of subjects and historical figures on higher levels, in weekly sessions that can also stand alone. Approximately every fifth week will be devoted to an optional experiential session, augmented with meditation and chant, and assessing the previ- ous weeks’ lessons. Recordings will be available online, along with an ever-expanding website with links to supplemental bibliographic materials: AlephTalks.com Table of Contents I. Foundational Questions and Issues 7 II. Reconnecting Mysticism and Science: Quantum Physics 8 III. Emerson on the Bhagavad Gita 10 IV. Mysticism East and West 11 Special guest lecture with our Cover Artist, more details to come: https://richardstodart.com/ V. Carl Gustav Jung, Swiss Psychoanalyst, Revisited 11 We have invited a former classmate of Marjorie’s at the Jung Inst., now an analyst, to give a special guest lecture, more to come. VI. Synchronicity 12 VII. Astronomy, Cosmology, Astrology 12 We have invited Marjorie’s former astrology teacher, a practicing Quaker and Sufi, to Give a special guest lecture, more to come. VIII. The Letters Between C.G. Jung and Austrian Physicist Wolfgang Pauli, 1932–1958 16 IX. Walking Meditation: Labyrinth – Sacred Geometry Meets Sacred Activism 17 X. Conclusion / Summary: Parallels and Intersections Where Mysticism Meets Science, Art and Religion 19 5 Is Mysticism Where Science, Art, and Religion Meet? Overview of Projected Lecture Subjects (as of October 7, 2020) The equivalence of various sacred geometries links Nature at all levels of reality. http://smphillips.mysite.com It is probably true quite generally that in the history of human thinking the most fruitful developments frequently take place at those points where two different lines of thought meet. These lines may have their roots in quite different parts of human culture, in different times or different cultural environ- ments or different religious traditions: hence if they actually meet, that is, if they are at least so much related to each other that a real interaction can take place, then one may hope that new and interesting developments follow …… Werner Heisenberg, Nobel Prize Winning German Physicist Any path is only a path, and there is no affront, to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you … Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as you think necessary. Then ask yourself and yourself alone, one question … Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn’t, it is of no use …… Carlos Castaneda, Mexican-American Author of a fictional but autobiographical account of his training in shamanism: The Teachings of Don Juan ______________________________ Aleph = Alpha to Omega. In set theory in mathematics, the Hebrew aleph glyph is used as the symbol to denote the aleph numbers, which represent the cardinality of infinite sets. This notation was introduced by mathematician Georg Cantor. 6 Materials to Be Reviewed Before Class Eric Whitacre: Deep Field https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDiD8F9ItX0 Ferde Grofe: Grand Canyon Suite https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xc6oYN_2h6g I. Foundational Questions and Issues Can the combined works of American Unitarian Founding Father Ralph Waldo Emerson and Swiss psychoanalyst, philosopher and expert authority on mythology, cross-cultural symbolism, religion and mysticism, Carl Gustav Jung, provide helpful context? o Eastern Mysticism: Hinduism, Yoga, Meditation, Buddhism, Taoism, I Ching, Sufism, Egyptian o Western Mysticism: Meditation, Prayer, Christianity (Jesus of Nazareth, St. Francis of Assisi), Gnosticism; Kabbalah (Hebrew, Christian, Hermetic); Alchemy; the work of C.G. Jung; Synchronicity; Astrology, etc. o Shamanism: Native American, Aztec, Inca, Mayan, Hopi, etc., Australian, African, etc., Lascaux, Gobekli Tepe (Ancient Turkey), etc. o Modern Science at a Crossroads: Cosmology, matter vs. dark matter vs. dark energy, string theory Mysticism deals with concepts that cannot be expressed verbally, which are beyond language. Science deals with experiments, modeling, and also breaks down in verbal interpretation. o Andrew Harvey: Christian Mysticism and Spiritual Activism — More on Page 17. o Science language breakdown: How can matter be both a particle and a wave? o Introducing the space-time continuum: compactified dimensions, Calabi-Yau manifolds, the scale of the universe: Quantum space compartments to intergalactic spaces o Basic elements: Information, neutrinos, Higgs bosons, matter and dark matter, dark energy o Basic layering: Information, physics, chemistry, biology, matter and dark matter 7 II. Reconnecting Mysticism and Science: Quantum Physics Western Science Key Disciplines o Astronomy (Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler) o Classical Mechanics (Newton, Lagrange, Laplace, Hamilton, Poincare) o Electro-Magnetism (Volta, Coulomb, Henry, Faraday, Maxwell, Tesla, Edison, Schwinger, Feynman) o Optics (Ibn al-Haytham, Huygens, Young, Fresnel, Townes, Kao) o Quantum Mechanics (Planck, Einstein, Bohr, de Broglie, Heisenberg, Schroedinger, Pauli, Dirac, Calabi-Yau Manifold Penrose, Bohm, Bell) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ o Solid State Physics (Helmholtz, Roentgen, Bragg, Calabi%E2%80%93Yau_manifold Omnes, Hall, Bloch, Anderson, Bardeen, Cooper, Stormer, McLaughlin) o Relativity (Michelson, Lorenz, Einstein E=MC2, Minkowski, Hawking) o Particle Physics (Hahn, Feynman, Schwinger, Dyson, Gellman, Weinberg,
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